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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



May 14, 1831- 



MISCELLANIES. 



Yellow Locust, Robinia, pseudo acacia. — 

 Mr. Wm. Buckminster of Framingharn, en- 

 couraged by a premium of fifty dollars, of- 

 fered by the Massachusetts Agricultural So- 

 ciety, sowed some seed in 1828. He first 

 poured boiling water on them and let them 

 soak three or four days. He then sowed 

 them in his garden. In the spring follow- 

 ing, he transplanted them in worn-out land, 

 in rows eight feet apart, and four feet distant 

 in the rows. On an acre he lias one thous- 

 and trees, some of which are four and a half 

 feet in circumference. Many a farmer would 

 idd to the value of his farm by following this 

 example. — A T . Y. Farmer. 



Currying Cows. — Cows should be curried 

 is often as horses, particularly when they 

 ire shedding their hair. Independent of o- 

 ther consequences, it tends to prevent them 

 from licking themselves, by which they too 

 often swallow the hair, and receive injury. 

 —lb. 



The Newtown Spitzenbtrg Apple, Match- 

 Jess. — A great reputation attaches to a class 

 jf American apples called the Spitzenbergs, 

 of which this is the best ; but they are not to 

 be compared with such fruit as the Ribstone 

 Pippin, the Cornish July-flower, the Golden 

 Harvey, and others of our fine English va- 

 rieties. This is, however, an apple of merit. 

 It bears well, is a pretty good bearer on a 

 •tandard, and will keep to the end of Janua- 

 ry. — Pom. Mag. 



Plaster for Trees. — The cheapest and most 

 -uitable remedy for wounds upon trees occa- 

 sioned by pruning, is Spanish brown paint, 

 a little thicker than painters generally use. 

 Lay it on with a brush, and take care to co- 

 ver the wounded part thoroughly. This will 

 effectually exclude the air and weather, and 

 Nature's healing process will soon perform 

 the cure. — N. F.. Farmer. 



Prevention of the Mildew on Peach and Nec- 

 tarine Trets. — Sir, the following preventive 

 of the mildew on Peach and Nectarine trees 

 has simplicity, as well as the experience of 

 many years, to recommend it. : — Take of 

 sulphur and rain or river water, in propor- 

 tions of two ounces of sulphur to every four 

 gallons of water. Put the quantity which 

 may be required into a copper or boiler, and 

 let it (after it commences boiling) boil for 

 half an hour: after which it may be taken 

 out, or suffered to remain until it becomes 

 of a tepid state, when it ought to be applied 

 to the trees by means of the garden engine 

 t>r syringe, as in a common washing with 

 water. The time for applying it is annual- 

 ly, as soon as the fruit is set and considered 

 out of danger. — Loudon. 



A Sweet Chesnut of a very superior sort, 

 well deserving the attention of nurserymen 

 is a source of scions for grafting, stands in 

 i he garden of Capt. Clemens, in the parish 

 of St. Peters, Jersey. Mr. Donald of the 

 Goldworth nursery, and Mr. Roy of Aber- 

 deen new nursery, expect to have plants for 

 lie in the autumn of 1831. — Gar. Mag. 



Propagation of Grape Vines. — The enter- 

 and experience of Mr. Longworth, are 

 worthy of notice. He has a variety of vines 

 which he raised from the seed, producing 

 different varieties of Grapes, which bid fair 

 to be excellent wine Grapes. His mode of 

 propagating the vine on the wild stock, has 

 in no instance failed, and merits description. 

 I ate in the fall he selects a wild vine, about 



the size of a walking stick — cuts it about 

 three feet from the ground, and digs it up 

 with as much root as he conveniently can, 

 and transfers it to a hole, in which are min- 

 gled, fine manure and light rich soil; thus 

 the root is placed until March. He then 

 cuts it close to the ground, and inserts neat- 

 ly the Grape scion, in the same manner in 

 which an Apple tree is grafted. He then 

 applies a paste made of clay and fine Trry 

 horse dung, then scrapes the loose rich earth 

 around imo the top of the graft. So luxu- 

 riant is the growth, that it is necessary, the 

 first season, to protect them from the severi- 

 ty of the frost, by covering them with earth. 

 They bear plentifully the second year, and 

 are more hardy and fruitful thau if raised 

 from cuttings. Next season, we may expect 

 to see Mr. Longworth in our market, with 

 Grapes north looking at, worth buying, and 

 worth eating. — Zanesville Gazette. 



A method of accelerating the maturity of 

 Melons. — This consists in spreading under 

 and around the melons, a bed of pulverised 

 charcoal two inches deep. Lampodias, at 

 Freiheng,attempted this experiment in 1813, 

 and he succeeded in ripening melons in a 

 box filled with earth and not covered during 

 the cold siunmer of that year. The surface 

 of the charcoal attained a temperature at 

 noon of from 11:") to '.88 degrees, while else- 

 where it was only from 85 to 88 degrees. — 

 American Farmer. 



Bee Hives. — Mr. Abijah Alley of this city, 

 has exhibited a model of a Bee house, which 

 appears to us to combine many convenien- 

 ces, and to lender the care of Bees much 

 less troublesome than the usual mode of 

 keeping them. Mr. Owen's system of com- 

 munities in parallelograms, is, with some 

 modifications, adopted for the plan ; which 

 is to congregate a large number of families, 

 or swarms of Bees, into one building, which 

 is so constructed that the owner of it may, 

 at his pleasure, go into the rear of the hives 

 and expel the Bees from one of the four 

 rooms or divisions, into which each hive is 

 separated, and take from it one fourth (or 

 half, as the case may require) of the honey 

 laid up for their winter stores. The model 

 will be exhibited'at Mr. Parkhurst's agricul- 

 tural warehouse, on Lower-market street, 

 and the inventor will also exhibit it at the 

 meeting of the society, to-morrow. We sub- 

 join his own remarks on the subject. — West. 

 Tiller. 



Discovery of Indian Corn. — This re- 

 cord of history is going the rounds of the 

 papers, and though we believe the first dis- 

 covery of the nutritious food is well known 

 to all familiar with the early story of New- 

 England — we may as well repeat the par- 

 ticulars which first led to the use of In- 

 dian Corn among the settlers. Captain 

 Miles Standish, who was called the " He- 

 ro of New-England," previous to the set- 

 tlement of the puritans, commanded one 

 of the parties bent on exploring the coun- 

 try, amounting in all to sixteen men. In 

 their progress they met with several hil- 

 locks, supposed to be the burial places of 

 the Indians, but as they advanced, finding 

 many more, they closely examined them, 

 and discovered that they contained what 

 they afterwards knew to be Indian Corn. 

 Being buried in the ear, it excited their 

 curiosity, anil by some of the party it w;ts 



thought a valuable acquisition, while oth- 

 ers, who ate it in a raw state, did not rel- 

 ish it, and thought it worth little or nothing. 

 They secured, however, some seed. In 

 the ensuing spring, a Squanto, a friendly- 

 Indian, instructed them in the culture of it 

 and it was probably the means of saving 



them afterwards from famine. .V. F 



Mer. 



CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES. 



EASTERN STATES. 



1820 ls>30. Increase. 



Maino 298 335 3:19,462 101,127 



New- Hampshire 244.161 269 633 28,372 



Vermont 235.764 280,665 44.901 



Massachusetts 523,287 510.100 86,815 



Connecticut 275.248 297,711 22,463 



Rhode-Island 83,059 97,211 14.152 



1,659,854 1,954,682 297,828 



MIDDLE STATES 



New-York 1,372.812 1,931,496 561,634 



New- Jersey 277.575 320,779 43.204 



Pennsylvania, 1.049,458 1,330,034 280.576 



Delawaro 72,749 76.737 3,»8fe 



Maryland 407,350 446.913 39.563 



1,414,726 2,263.1(7 348,381 



SOUTH-WESTERN STATES. 



Tennessee 422 813 684,822 262,009 



Louisiana 153 4 7 215,275 62,168 



Alabama 127 901 309,216 181,351 



Mississippi 75,448 97,866 22,417 



779 569 1 ,307,478 527,909 



TERRITORIES. 



Dis.of Columbia 33.039 39,859 6,819 



Michigan 8 896 31.696 22,802 



Arkansas 14 246 30.380 16,134 



Florida 34,725 



56.181 136,611 80,430 



RECAPITULATION 



E. Stites 1,659,854 1,954,682 297,828 



M. States 3,179 944 4.108 959 92it,016 



S.Statos 2.547 925 3 022.812 474.887 



W. Stales 1.414 726 2.263.107 843,381 



8. W. Slates 779.569 1.307.473 527.909 



Territories 56 181 136,611 60.430 



Total 



9 637 299 12 796.649 3 15S.45C 



Romantic — Augusta, Geo. Feb. 14. 

 — Report says, that lately the Sand Bar 

 Ferryman picked up in the river floating 

 down, a nice mahogany cradle, closely 

 canlked, so as to exclude the water. It 

 had the usual cradle clodiing, and its quilt 

 was neatly spread and tucked beneath its 

 soft bed of leathers. The ferryman tow- 

 ed it ashore and began to examine the val- 

 ue of his prize. He raised the covering, 

 and behold ! a beautiful infant, handsome- 

 ly dressed, lay beneath in undisturbed 

 slumbers. He carried it to his mistress, 

 where it has found that protection denied* 

 bv an unnatural mother. 



